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theodp writes “A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week’s detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned ‘minimal nutrition’ (more…)

Investigators say Faith Williams Hamby, 43, flashed her breasts to a patron at a Gadsden convenience store on Wednesday. Only that patron was an off-duty Etowah County sheriff’s deputy, and apparently he wasn’t impressed.